For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home

We make it for ourselves and give it away for Christmas and as presents.

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."